QA Engineer

Requirements

• Must be legally authorised to work in United Kingdom
• (Desirable) Experience with load testing and performance testing
• Must not require sponsorship for now or future visa for employment
• (Desirable) Experience improving or scaling QA practices in a growing engineering team
• Minimum 3 years’ hands‑on experience in test automation and manual testing
• (Desirable) Familiarity with data‑intensive systems, data pipelines, or basic data engineering concepts
• Minimum 2 years’ experience with Playwright
• (Desirable) Comfort with mathematical reasoning, statistics, or working with large datasets in a QA context
• Minimum 2 years’ experience with TypeScript / JavaScript
• (Desirable) High energy, initiative, and a strong sense of ownership, particularly important as automation is in its early stages
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
• (Desirable) Ability to influence teams and bring others along on the quality and automation journey
• Experience working alongside software developers in an Agile environment
• (Desirable) Excellent communication, collaboration, and a consultative approach to quality
• Understanding of UI, API, and integration testing approaches, and when to apply them
• (Desirable) Thrives in fast‑paced, evolving Agile environments
• Effective communicator
• (Desirable) Passionate about continuous improvement, innovation, and raising engineering standards
• Collaborative team player who contributes to overall team success
• (Desirable) While experience is important, we place equal value on attitude, curiosity, and a commitment to learning and growth. We are looking for someone excited by the opportunity to take ownership, develop their skills, and shape how QA operates as the company grows
• Positive attitude with the ability to handle challenges constructively

What the job involves

• Own and develop the QA function across the business
• Create and maintain a dedicated QA repository with end-to-end tests written in Playwright
• Run automated E2E tests against deployed environments when required
• Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline so they run against changes being deployed to an environment
• Perform smoke testing against production to ensure no critical functionality has been broken
• Create, maintain, and evolve test plans and test strategies
• Manually test tickets as they move through the board and add appropriate automated coverage where valuable
• Take full ownership of the Playwright automation framework, enhancing, refining, and extending it to improve coverage and reliability
• Expand the automation suite across critical user journeys, regression flows, and integration scenarios
• Drive best practices in UI automation, including test stability, consistency, and efficient execution
• Work closely with software engineers in an Agile environment to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle

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